The hallway is 32" x 76", and five doorways open into it, from the bathroom, the bedroom, the dining balcony, the linen closet, and the clothes closet. You can see it in the distance from the living room, and I want it to catch the eye with a little glimpse of something special. It's the one place where the original wood floor cannot be saved, so since I have to replace it anyway, I'm replacing it with tile.
This is the tile I bought:
The picture shows four 8x8 tiles. Here's (roughly) what they'll look like in my hall:
Buying them was a real adventure. We navigated our way out to a little concrete building in the industrial outskirts of Miami - next door to a junkyard. The "showroom" was a little office carved out of the dusty warehouse. Once I picked out my tile, the guy brought out boxes and opened them, and allowed me to go through them tile by tile to pick out 40 perfect tiles. Because they ordinarily only ship by freight carrier (which is incredibly expensive - about 3x the cost of the tiles themselves for such a small order) we decided to carry some home in our luggage, and send the rest via USPS. (The tile guy believed - in error, as it turned out - that the boxes of tile would fit in the USPS $10.75 flat rate boxes, which would have been a real bargain, but alas, they were 1/4 inch too big). Hopefully they'll get here intact next week.
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